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That's below 30 fps, our threshold for playability. On the benchmark for the DiRT 3 racing game, the MacBook mustered just 27 frames per second at its native resolution with all of the details on low, and various effects (such as multisampling and VSync) turned off.
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The integrated Intel 515 graphics in the MacBook will be fine for editing photos and playing some light Mac games, such as Rayman Origins, but don't expect more than that. Remember, though, that we tested the Core m5 version of the MacBook the Core m3 version will be slower. That's more than a minute faster than the XPS 13, and 40 seconds ahead of the Vaio Z. This laptop took just 3 minutes and 11 seconds to match 20,000 names and addresses in OpenOffice. If you're wondering whether the MacBook can crunch numbers, don't worry. Neither the touch or the nontouch version of the XPS 13 crossed 250 MBps, but both the X1 Carbon and the Vaio Z managed 419 MBps with their PCIe drives. On our file-transfer test, in which we time how long it takes to move about 5GB of files, the MacBook took a brisk 14.3 seconds, which translates to 355.9 MBps. The updated MacBook also benefits from faster PCIe-based flash storage. The XPS 13, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon and the Vaio Z, all of which had 6th Generation Core i5 processors, predictably scored a higher 6,374 6,828 and 7,252, respectively.
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That smokes last year's MacBook (4,631) and also beats the latest 13-inch, Core i5-powered MacBook Air (5,783), though the latter system has an older 5th-generation Core Series CPU. On the Geekbench 3 benchmark, which measures overall performance, the Core m5-powered MacBook scored 5,906. The ominous horns in the Rogue One trailer, as well as the piercing laser cannon fire from thudding AT-ATs, came through clearly.

When I streamed Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life," the pulsating drums meshed well with the vocals, and the speaker (located above the keyboard) produced loud volume without distortion. I continue to be surprised by the MacBook's audio quality given its thin profile.
While that's not as good as the X1 Carbon or the Vaio Z (0.5 to 0.8 range), it trumps the touch XPS 13 (3.13) and the category average (2.7).
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However, the Vaio Z reached 117 percent.Īpple should not get a pass for stuffing a low-resolution 480p camera into a $1,299 laptop.Īpple's panel is also quite color accurate, notching a Delta-E error rate of 0.99 (0 is perfect). The MacBook's display can produce an impressive 107 percent of the color gamut, which beats the touch XPS 13 and the ThinkPad X1 Carbon (both less than 105 percent). However, the Vaio Z's display hit a sky-high 548 nits.
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Registering 327 nits on our light meter, the MacBook's screen is in between the brightness readings for the touch-screen version of the XPS 13 (336 nits) and the nontouch XPS 13 (318 nits), and higher than the ThinkPad X1 Carbon (292 nits for full HD, 2 x 1440). When I watched the 4K trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story on this panel, a fiery explosion that sent Stormtroopers flying had intense sparks of yellow and orange, and a close-up of Felicity Jones in gleaming black armor neatly reflected the lights surrounding her. MORE: Why 78 Percent of Laptop Screens Suck The laptop has a resolution of 2304 x 1440 pixels, which blows away the Air's low-res 1400 x 900 panel.

The MacBook's 12-inch display is so sharp and colorful that it makes me want to throw out my MacBook Air. However, I wound up disabling this feature, because I found it difficult to move icons around in the Dock with Force Click turned on. For example, you can look up the definition of a word by Force Clicking it, or you can preview a web page or preview an address in Maps with a deep press. The MacBook's 12-inch display is so sharp and colorful it makes me want to throw out my MacBook Air.Īs with last year's MacBook, the Force Click feature lets you save time by deep pressing on items. It worked brilliantly as I clicked on links, opened apps and selected text. Instead, the pad uses a Taptic Engine to deliver haptic feedback. The MacBook's keyboard isn't comfortable, but I found it perfectly usable.Įven after a year, I'm pretty amazed by how the MacBook's large, 4.4 x 2.7-inch Force Touch trackpad tricks your brain into thinking that it's physically clicking down when you press it. That compares to my average of 77 wpm and one error on the 13-inch Air. Nevertheless, I grew accustomed the MacBook's layout within a couple of hours, and I typed a fast-for-me 78 words per minute on the typing test, with only two errors.
